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- The artist, BETTINA SHAW-LAWRENCE , revealedby Sandra (Shaw-Lawrence) Boselli ('63)I have just spent five wonderful days in Italy interviewing my aunt, the artist Bettina Shaw-Lawrence born in 1921 whom I consider to be a major figurative painter of the 20th century. Every afternoon during the length of my stay, we sat in her small living-room surrounded by her paintings and those of her friends, reminiscing the past and wondering why Bettina had continued steadfastly to paint despite personal hindrances and sheer bad luck. Indeed, her whole life since adolescence has been entirely devoted to sketching, etching, sculpture, drawing with inks, but above all to oil- painting. She trained in Paris, just before the war, under Fernand Léger and then, thanks to her friends, Lucian Freud and David Kentish, trained off and on during the war at the East Anglian School of Painting and Drawing run by the artist Sir Cedric Morris and Lett Haines. As far as Cedric Morris was concerned she was « the only pupil who acknowledged what he had taught ». Throughout her life she has always considered herself as an intuitive artist with a unique eye, making a positive statement. Should one want to put her work into a category, Bettina Shaw-Lawrence accepts that neo-Romanticism fits the bill best though she rejects any kind of conscious influence. Photos of her paintings will reveal better than any description, the evolution of her art throughout the years, her unique relationship to her environment. |
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